Join a weekend trip

Come to the sign-up session for the trip you are interested in, as advertised in our newsletter. You will be able to sign up using a digital form in the order you arrive. See the Weekend Trips page for more information, including a kit list.

If you get a place, you’ll be asked to pay by cash at the time.

If you don’t get a place, you may be invited to join the general waiting list instead, which is for people who have not yet been on a UBES weekend trip in that academic year. If you choose to join the waiting list, we will ask you which other trips you are interested in coming on. We may contact you if an extra place becomes available.

Unfortunately some of our trips are often oversubscribed, so we have a waiting list system to help allocate places fairly.

If you come to Wednesday sign up but miss out on a place, and it’s your first trip this year, we will offer you a place on the waiting list.

A few days before the next sign-up session, we will offer around one fifth of the trip places to those at the top of the waiting list who expressed an interest in that trip. If you are offered a place this way, you need to tell us if you would like to accept the place or not. You cannot transfer your waiting list place to another person.

If you accept our offer, you will need to attend the sign-up session in order to pay.

If you do not accept our offer, you will have to re-join the waiting list. This gives everyone else a fair chance to come on a trip.

Even if we haven’t been able to offer you a place for a particular trip, you are still encouraged to come to first-come-first-served sign-up as usual. Remember, the vast majority of places are still accessed this way.